You Can Teach Yourself Fiddling
by Craig Duncan
Product Number: 94430DP
ISBN: 078666780X
Publisher: Mel Bay Pub., Inc.
Difficulty Level: Beginning
Format: Book+DVD
This book/DVD package, designed for beginning fiddle students, presents basic techniques in 36 lessons by applying them to fiddle tunes. Reading music is unnecessary, as the lessons are explained step by step, and fingerings are given for every note. Each version builds on the previous one and helps students to create their own arrangements.
The DVD with this set is designed to complement the first 17 lessons of the You Can Teach Yourself Fiddling text. Covers tuning, holding the fiddle and bow, left-hand position, basic A, D, and G scales, shuffle bowing, slurs, double stops, and many tunes, including "Liza Jane," "Shortening Bread," "Going to Boston," and "Bile Them Cabbage Down."
CONTENTS
Parts of the Fiddle, Tuning the Fiddle, Holding the Fiddle, Left Hand Placement, Holding the Bow, Dotted Note Values, Time Signatures, Pick-up Notes, Keys and Scales, Double Stops, Endings or "Tags", Mixolydian Mode, Double Shuffle, and Jigs. Tunes, arranged in order of difficulty, include:
Mary Had a Little Lamb, Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star, Liza Jane, Camptown Races, Buffalo Gals, Shady Grove, Shortnin' Bread, Oh, Suzanna, Cindy, Dixie, Wildwood Flower, Angeline the Baker, Soldier's Joy, Going to Boston, Skip to My Lou, The Girl I left Behind Me, Bile Them Cabbage Down, Old Joe Clark, Up Jumped the Devil, Mississippi Sawyer, Cripple Creek, Arkansas Traveler, Fine Times at My House, and many more. Some tunes are repeated in increasingly challenging variations.
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